Author: WILSON, Edmund (editor)
Title: The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It
Description: New York, The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Light grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xvii, 1290pp. Near fine/very good. Slightest of jacket edgewear only; ownership signature on front flyleaf and top of one text leaf; Wilson's death date penned on title page. Handsome and tight first thus, #G-83, being the Modern Library Giant's so stated first edition of this thick study originally published in 1943 (Doubleday and Doran) with a second edition in 1955 (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy). Though not properly dated, Wilson's biography on rear jacket flap brings his work up through 1959, making 1960 a fair guess. An MLG seldom seen, especially with a jacket as fresh as this. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism
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Title: The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It
Description: New York, The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Light grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xvii, 1290pp. Near fine/very good. Slightest of jacket edgewear only; ownership signature on front flyleaf and top of one text leaf; Wilson's death date penned on title page. Handsome and tight first thus, #G-83, being the Modern Library Giant's so stated first edition of this thick study originally published in 1943 (Doubleday and Doran) with a second edition in 1955 (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy). Though not properly dated, Wilson's biography on rear jacket flap brings his work up through 1959, making 1960 a fair guess. An MLG seldom seen, especially with a jacket as fresh as this. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51040
- Book number: 51040
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